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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online learning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also addresses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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